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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-10-22
TRACKERAY's VIEWS oFDEATH

L don't pity anybody WHO leaves the
world, not even a fair young girl in her
prime; l pity those remaining. On
her journey, if it pleases God to send
her, depend on it there's no cause for
grief, that's but an earthly condition.
Out of our stormy life, and brought
nearer the divine light and warmth,
there must -E5 q serene climate. Can't
you fancy sailing into the calm Would
you care about going on the voyage,
but for the dear souls left ON the other
shore? But we shan't be parted from
them, no doubt, though they are from
us. Add little more intelligence to
that which we possess even as we are,
and why shouldn't we be with our
friends though ever so far off? =.
Why presently, the body removed,
shouldn't we personally be anywhere at
will-properties of creation, like the
electric something (spark is it p that
thrills all round the globe simultane-
Ously ? and if round the globe why not
Ueberaj? and the body being removed
or elsewhere disposed OF and developed,
sorrow and its opposite, crime and the
reverse, ease and disease, desire and
dislike, ETC., go along with the body-a
lucid intelligence remains. a perception
ubiqui iCous.-FrOnl the Tbackerdq Let
terS, IN ScHbner'S Magazine for October.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-10-22
CAMP MEETING JOHN ALLEN.

Only a few hours before his death,
Camp-meeting John Allen told the fol-
lowing story, which was enjoyed hear
tily by his hearers He was at Augusta
one time when young man came up
to him and abused the Methodists in
round terms. The fellow said that his
father had been Methodist minister
and had kept shaking him ever hell for
twenty years Said Camp meeting
John, "Wen, it was a pity he hadn't
dropped you"
The above is going the rounds of the
papers. After reading it we must come
to one of two conclusions, either that
Camp-meeting John was a heartless
man, and his listeners to that story
equally so, or that he and they did not
think the Methodist hell very bad
place.
We do not for a moment suppose
that old camp-meeting preacher was a
hard-hearted, cruel or vindictiye man
on the contrary, from. what is told of
him by his friends, we think he was a
sweet-spirited, happy hearted old disci-
Pile Therefore we come to the conclu-
sion that he did not consider the Meth
odist hell one of extreme hardship. GER
tainly not a place or condition of end
less suffering or eteraal SHINING, or he
would not have thought it a pity that a
youth of twenty years had not been
dropped into it because he abused the
Methodists.
The boys idle talk could not have in
jured the denomination as much as did
that Methodist Book Concern a few
years ago. We never heard that any
persons connected with il were verbally
sent to Gehenna by earthly saints
Even "backsliders' are prayed for and
lab0red with, instead of being consigned
to that climate which is said to be i'm
measurably hotter than the weather of
last July.
Oh, no! Good old Camp meeting
John did not think of any such discom-
fort when talking to the youth. He
was only getting off one of his Jokes at
the expense of the old hell which was
long ago burnt Out.-LOrenzG Hagnes,
IN Gospel Banner.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-10-22
COMPARATIVE ETHICS AND LAW.
BY REV. WILLIAM TUCKER, D. ID.
(Mount Gilead, o.

In the study of comparative law by
the application of both the historical
and analytical method, we have been
struck by the fact of the great unity
and harmony in the ethical principles
that underlie and pervade the jurispru-
dence of all nations. Law is an out
growth Of mans nature, as a physical,
social, and moral being. 1t reveals his
nature, wants and relations. It's origin
is social, ethical and religious. 1t 10
grounded on the universal c0nvictir
that men are free and responsible. II
jurisprudence, liberty never means Ii
cense. A law prescribes duties, duties
measure obligations, and obligations
grow out of relations, and imply re-
sponsibility to a superior. Here the
ethical and religious elements come
into law. God is mans superior. He
is our Creator, Father and Friend. We
are his creatures and children-the
members of his family and the subjects
of his government. We belong to him,
and are therefore responsible to him for
our conduct. This lays the foundation
of law in mans religious nature and
relations. The moral principles of
jurisprudence grow out of mans rela
tions to his fellow men, and have their
origin in the family, Here we find the
genesis Of human governments, and
the origin of human laws. When we
look at the beginning of law we find it
in the family when we seek for the
authority of early law, we find it in the
will of God. Fathers, kings and leg
islators have claimed to rule by divine
right, and to be sustained by divine au-
thority.
The source of the unity Of law is to
be found in the unity Of mans nature
and relations; and its variety in the
difference of situation, circumstances,
and environment in which he has lived,
and thought and acted. The striking
similarity of the laws of one nation to
those of another is not satisfactory
proof that they have been copied. They
may have been deriye cd from a common
source, have grown out Of the nature
and wants of a common humanity, or
have been evolved from common, social,
moral and political germs. 1t is fact
that the ethical principles of the moral
code of Moses are found in the laws of
nearly all civilized nations. But this
fact does not prove that the code of the
Hebrews was copied from the laws of
the ancient Egyptians, any more than
it proves that the principles of Roman
law were derived from the code of the
old Hebrews. A common nature, com
mon wants and common relations, &C
cording to the science Of comparative
jurisprudence, will account for the
principles Of the moral unity that runs
through all law The institutions of
marriage, the family, property, slavery,
and religion, which we find in all the
older civilizations, were not copied by
one nation OF people from another; but
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-10-22

Samaritan who paid for hOspitalities at
an inn, for the half murdered man who
fell among thieves. Would he have
refused the spiritual hospitalities of
free grace to one of his heavenly Fathers
children who had then told him he was
in need ? In short, did Jesus put away
the golden rule, and repudiate the benef-
cence which he had preached to the
multitudes, and forget the love of God
for all mankind when he sat down to
that table Then, indeed, let us not
call that Supper the Eucharist, the
table of urbanity and thanksgiving;
but call it rather place of treason to
principle, and of hypocrisy in secret
to doctrines which had been proclaim
ed in public.
But it is utterly beyond Christian
conception that Jesus should possess an
abundance of bread and not allow his
hungry fellow-man to partake-a not
extend to him the common rights of
hospitality. Take notice that he sent
out his first disciples to preach with no
other means of sustenance except the
hospitality of strangers. Provide
neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in
your purses; nor scrip for your journey,
neither two coats, neither shoes, nor
yet staves." "And in the same house
remain, eating and drinking such things
as they give" And, moreover, did he
not pronounce a severe rebuke against
such people or cities as would not re-
ceive them ?
Well, in what inconsistent strait do
we put Jesus, therefore, if we COM
pei him to sit at table from which all
but his favorites are excluded ! How
shall he be choked with his own words,
eff ye salute your brethren only, what
do ye more than others Do not even
the publicans so ?''
Furthermore, Jesus declared himself
to be the bread of life, T. e., symbol
ically. But what will he do with
himself, symbolically, in the long eter-
nifty TO come =? VIII he look idly on
upon the continents of spiritual famine,
with millions on millions starving and
suffering, and grant no relief ? Not so
have we learned of Jesus. He is the
same yesterday, to-day and forever.
They who have abundance will never
be allowed to deny the rights of hospi-
tality to those who have none, neither
physically, nor socially, nor spiritually.
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CHICAGO AND OINCINNATI SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22 1887

grew up largely where we find them
out of the nature, wants, passions, ap-
petites, and interest of common hui
manity. The likeness of the teachings
of Christ to the teachings of the found
ers of the older religions is no evidence
that he copied from them for he had
no opportunity to do so, but the same
principles sprung from common hu-
manity and a common inspiration.
To make principle, law or doctrine
Christian, it is not necessary that it
originate with Christ, but that it be
like him. The proof of its Christian
character is to be found in its nature,
and not in its origin. In what it is,
and not in the source from which it
came. Christ did not claim independ-
ence and originality in all things but
he claimed spirituality, divinity and
truth. Then everything in ethics, re-
ligiOn and law, whichis spiritual, divine,
benevolent and true, is Christian for
it is like his teaching and like himself.
There were taught essential Christian
doctrines before Christ taught; for
when he came he taught and made
them his. There had been revealed to
men Christian laws before Christ
preached the Sermon on the Mount.
The same divine and human principles
were in these laws that were in Christ.
They were like him. When he taught,
therefore, he repeated and affirmed
them as his. His superiority as teacher
is not, that he did not teach many of
the same things that others taught, but
that he taught them better, with more
clearness and greater force and author
ity. He brings forward the true, the
beautiful and the good of all the past,
and reaffirms it in his teaching and life,
and thus stamps it with his divinity
and authority as teacher sent from
God. The moral and spiritual elements
of the teaching of Christ, will be found
in many of the laws of different nations
and peoples. These we discover by the
study of comparative jurisprudence.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-10-22
THE BURNING BUSH.
BY MRS. o. J. HILEs.

Iwnder not that Moses saw
Within the burning bush his God
Nor marvel | at that great law
That stayed his feet before he trod
Unthinking, on the sacred sod.
Take off thy shoes for it is meet
Thou standest upon holy ground.-
To walk with bare and reverent feet;
And draw not nigh, for all around
Is filled with mystic, solemn sound.
&c am thy Fathers God, and
Am what | am. Stretch forth thine hand
From Pharaoh's hosts | bid thee fly,
Shrink not, with pity command,
There's milk and honey in the land
(which for Israel have prepared;
For have heard my peoples cry,
With them tn OppressOr's yoke have
shared,
I'll lead them to a cloudless sky,
The perfect land of prophecy"
Our fathers God! Thy people sit
In Eyypt's darkened halls to-day;
On every hill thy fires are lit,
In every bush beside the way,
The angel of the Lord doth stay.
\ world transfigured in our sight!
Oh, God, in Presence infinite,
Our eyes cannot behold the light,
1t breaks in colors as is fit,
And in our blindness requisite.
With joy our trembling hearts are stirred.
Thy incarnatc Word shall make us free;
We hear the voice that Moses heard;
Between our tyrant, Sin, and Thee,
Rolls darkly the Egyptian sea.
We see its parting waters move;
Hold back the wave our feet are slow;
In cloud and fire Thy presence prove;
Thy pity and Thy love foreshow;
We shall not falter-when we know.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-10-22

Majority rule, though often tyrau-
nica', Is much to be preferred TO the rul .
Of the minority, and is distinctly Amer
lean. After all parties have had their
say, let the votes Of a majority decide
what the policy shall be. This is the
fairest and safest plan. The decision
may be unwise or wrong, or both; but
there are Other days and there WILDE
other opportunities for the minority. The
whirligig Of time will bring about it's re-
venges.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-10-22
THE BEADLE'S POINT.

In olden times the serviceable beadle
was armed with small wooden mob"
or mallet, with which he was quietly
commissioned to tap" gently but
firmly, the heads of careless sleepers in
church during the sermon. An in
stance to hand is very amusing, and is
not out of fair probability.
In the old town of Kilbarchan, which
is celebrated in Scottish poetry as the
birthplace of Habbie Simson, the verse
maker of the clachan, once lived and
preached a reverend original whose
pulpit ministratiOns were of the old
fashioned, h0dden-gray type, being hum
drum and innocent of all spirit-rousing
eloquence and force. Like many of his
clerical brethren, he was greatly annoy
ed every Sunday at the sight of several
of his parishioners sleeping through the
sermon. He was especially angry with
Johnny Plane, the village joiner, who
dropped off to sleep every Sunday after
noon with the formal delivery of the
text. Johnny had been touched by
the old beadle's mallet on several occa-
sions, but only in gentle though per
suasiYe manner. At last, one day, the
minister, provoked beyond endurance
at the sight of the joiner soundly asleep,
lost his temper.
Johnny Plane ~ cried the reverend
gentleman, stopping his discourse and
cycling the culprit severely, ''are you
really sleeping already, and me no half
through with the first head ?'' The
joiner, easy man, was quite ObliviOus
to things mundane, and noticed not the
rebuke. "Andra, Presumed the minis
ter, addressing the beade and relaps-
ing into informal Doric, "gang round
to the vast loft (west gallery and rap
up Johnny Plane. Gle the lazy loon a
guild stiff rap on the held he deserves
it"
Round and up to the .wast loft the
old-fashioned beadle goes, and reaching
the somnOlent parishioner, he rather
smarJly raps him on his bald head. Iu-
stantly there was ON the part of Johnny
a sudden start-up, and between him
and the worthy beadle a hot, under
breath bandying Of words. Silence re-
stored, the reverend gentleman pro-
ceeded with his sermon as if nothing
unusual had occurred.
After sermon Andra met the minis
ter in the vestry, who at once made in
quiry as to the words" he had with
Johnny i'll the gallery. But the beadle
was Teticent and uncommunicative on
the matter, and would not be questioned
as to the reception The joiner had given
his saluting SUNNI )ns.
'Well, Audra," at length said the
reverend gentleman, I'm tell We what,
we must not be beaten in this matter.
If the loon sleeps next Sunday during
sermon, j.st you gang up and rap him
back to reason. It's knock wi some
force int the chiel wants mind that,
and spare net,
"'Deed 10, sir, was the beadle's
canny reply. I'm no disturb him,
sleepin' or waukin', for some weeks to
come. lie threatens to knock pew,
Bibles and hymn-booki oot o. me if [
again daur to rap him awteen this and
Martinmas. Ii Johnny's to be kept
frae sleepin', minister, ye maun lust
pit the force into yer sermon, ,"- Cham
Jcrs' Journal
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PRoBABLY the Rev. GEORGE r.. ROGERS,
Ut Brook Station Ky, is the oldest minis
ter in the active service in the United
States. Though 90 years old he frequent
ly rides HE horse to Louisville and re-
turn distance Of ftwenty-six miles. tie
served through the war OF 1912 and draws
a pension for that service.
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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-11-08
THE ATT
Items of Interest Cleaned From Interior
Exchanges.

Items of Interest Cleaned From Interior
Exchanges.
Reeves Ingman and 'Lys Raymond, of
FairmOnt, shot at a pigeon in the rear Of
Farrance's steam mill one day last week,
and the ball from one of the guns passed
through the window into the kitchen of
=. II. Benefits residence, on Jackson
street, narrowly missing Miss Minda Ross,
who was in the room.
Elisha Morgan, a venerable and well
known citizen of Wetzel, resident all his
long life on the waters of Fishing Creek,
died at his home last Thursday, in the
seth year of his year. Until recently he
was quite vigorous in mind and body and
thought nothing of walking fourteen miles
away to catch the morning train for
Wheeling, where he would 90 10 transact
business.
The Grafton Eagle tells Of a severe acct
dent that befell Isaac Knots and Phil
Shaw. They were horse racing, and their
horses ran over a cow and threw them
both off. Knots had q leg broken mid
way between the knee and the thigh, and
his lips cut through and through, while
SHAW ndu TWO DOUt5 III OuS udHu DIVhcu,
his wrist dislocated and bruised about the
face. The bovine lost both horns in the
collision.
Last Friday morning, about three and a
half miles west of Falls Mills, on Mud
Fork, Just across the Virginia line fron
Wyoming county, Lee and William Tabor,
brothers, sons of Frank Tabor, were shot
and killed by Robert Belcher. The par
ticulars are about as follows: For some
time there has been bad blood between the
Tabors and Belcher, and on the day before
the tragedy a mule belonging to one of the
TabOrs got into BelCher's corn. Belcher
sent them word to come and get it, but
they failed to do so, and he locked it up in
his stable. Next morning the TabOrs went
over to Belcher's, armed, for the purpose OF
taking the mule out OF the stable. Belcher
got q dOuble-barrel shot gun and went 10
the stable where they were, when q quar-
rel ensued. After a few words n OF the
TabOrS attempted to shoot, but Belcher
fired too quick for him and he fell dead.
Belcher then wheeled and shot the other
one, inficting a mortal wound from which
he died in q short time. Bslcher surren-
dered 20 the authorities. He is a brother
to James and Green Belcher of Wyoming
county, and is regarded rs q very quiet,
peaceable man. The TsbOrs were cousins
Of Wade Tabor, who killed a darkey a
couple of years ago.
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OHIO,S VOTE.


The Cincinnati EaqEirer thus gives de-
tails of the late votes in Ohio:
AT the Presidential election in 1884
Ohio cast q vote which was at that time
the largest vote of her record, the total
being 7s4,sO7. At the Gubernat9Fial
election of 1895, when FORAKEp ~satcd
Ho,Dry, the total vote fell Oh TO-
In 1886, in the election of a Sec
State, although called an ''off year, " the
State polled the largest vote in its history,
to wit, 1928. A few days ago this
paper made comparisons between past
and present registrations a to Cleve-
land and Cincinnati, and present
registration and past votes as to
Columbus, Toledo and Dayton, and
the result seemed to indicate that Ohio
would cast this year a vote considerably
larger even than the phenomenal n Of
1886. Now, as to details. The vote for
Governor in 1885 was distributed as fol-
lows: Republican, 359,251; Democratic,
81, $50; Prohibition, -, 19l; scattering,
2,O18. Republican lFORAKER) plurality,
17,45l. The immense vote for Secretary Of
State last tall 1855 was distributed as
follows: Republican, 391, 500; Democratic,
3SO,275; Prohibition, 9,7s5; Greenback,
$3.50; Republican plurality, 1924; total
vote, 785 ,239. This year the vote is likely
to run up to SOC, 700"
The ERqHirer'S political correspondent,
Mr.. W. A. TAYLOR, who probably knows
as much about Ohio politics as any man
living, has visited eighty-scven counties,
and gives figures which he thinks twill
unquestionably be largely verified Dy the
actual returns"
He leaves out Hamilton county where a
political chaos prevails, which makes it
absolutely impossible to figure on the re-
suit. His figures give POWELL outside OF
Hamilton county, n plurality OF $50.
He adds: Suppose We say that the aggre-
gate of the Democratic pluralities is 900
too high, or the Republican pluralities p
900 too low-this wonld leave . credit of
1000 to POWELL when he reaches Hamil-
ten county"
The question is: Will the labor ticket
in Cincinnati reduce the Democratic vote
,p6iciaptIv IN enable the RpnuhlicaDs 10
overcome this and elect FORAKER?
TAYLOR winds up: Governor FORA
EER's wild appeals to the passions Of the
wal are made for the sole purpose of in
duciug thoughtful Republicans to stitie
their convictions and vote the ticket just
once more Thousands Of them will re-
fuse to go to the polls, hut this will do no
good unless the Democrats turn out from
80 to 80 per cent. of their vote. Will they
do it? Nous rerrOns."
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his already colossal fortune? Has he not
already bought Legislatures by wholesale
and corrupted members of Congress with
out tend? In the name Of common sense what
does the h~teiigeReer mean? Is it because
JAY GOULD is a Republican, q product OF
Republicanism, and the man who tried to
buy Maryland for the Republican party
and has bsrgsined for New YOrk-is this
the reason the Intelligence objects to apes
tai telegraph? If so, it is the first organ
that has had the martyr-spirit to immediate
itself on the altar of its party by coming
out openly in favor of Jay Gouldism. 1t
must be stark, staring mad. A postal
telegraph is bound to come sooner or later,
if not at the next Congress, then at some
subsequent. 1t is next and directly in
the line of progress. England has gotten
ahead of us on this point and her tele-
graphic tolls are Cheapness itself. The
people demand the best and cheapest of
everything and he who would stand in the
way of this demand will simply be run over.
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honest.

NOBODY in the South wants to fight.
Nobody in the South said anything about
war. 1t all originated with FORAKER.
Do the people of Ohio want to 20 on year
after year listening to such driVef? Do
they want to keep sectional politics on top
in this country generation after genera
ton, making i'll feeling and discord that
must work disadvantage and loss to the
interests and industries of the country? II
they do they an vote for FORAKER feeling
certain that their ballot will do its work.
If they don't let them defeat FORAKER
and they will never hear Of the bloody shirt
again